You need to keep in mind that most of the large companies producing our food are not in the business of nutrition, just like the cleaning product companies, (Healthy Home Tour) they are in the business of making money, period. The less it costs to produce the food product, the more they make.

Producing high quality, high nutrition food on a large scale is initially expensive compared to using chemicals to grow it. One of the main problems when you grow food with chemicals, is depletion of the minerals in the soil. Normal, healthy soil has an abundance of minerals in it, which are “processed” by plants and put into a form that we can use in our bodies. We cannot produce minerals ourselves, and they are critical for our health and for the utilization of vitamins. Go to:

How Important IS Nutrition?

Nutrition had a different meaning in the beginning and middle of the last century. Even a quote from Thomas Edison indicates the importance placed on nutrition: “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” In other words: eating healthy. We all owe a lot to Edison’s “brilliance”, and intelligence, so we should take what he said seriously.

Chronic diseases such as (Heart Disease) cancer, and diabetes are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. They are also the most preventable. Conventional physicians treat chronic diseases with expensive pharmaceuticals that may temporarily relieve the painful or uncomfortable symptoms, but these drugs do nothing to resolve the underlying cause, and may actually cause other side effects and additional serious problems.

What we eat or do not eat affects:

• Our immune system;

• Hormonal balance;

• Cellular metabolism.

• Every single system in our body.

What this means is that many of these chronic diseases can be traced to a nutritional deficiency. When the deficiency is not corrected, symptoms begin to appear and eventually lead to disease and premature aging. Even the American Medical Association suggested in 2002 that 97% of Americans are nutritionally deficient and should take some kind of a vitamin to help make up that deficiency.

Do you know that there are THOUSANDS of scientific studies proving that cancer, heart disease, and other major killers in this country, can be prevented and cured by eating healthy, and eating a diet that is more geared toward vegetables than towards meat and dairy products? Why doesn't everyone know about this: It's simply not as "profitable".

If you find that a little hard to believe: that we as a nation are being misled by large corporations' desire for profit--at our expense, just take a look at the financial mess we are in now. Why are we in this mess? The main reason is corporate greed.

So, What About My Doctor, Does She or He Know About Proper Nutrition?

In the majority of cases the answer is unfortunately NO. It is interesting to note, taking a look at the biochemistry textbooks used in medical schools in the 1920’s and 1930’s reveals that food, nutrition, and eating healthy were emphasized. In fact, out of 16 chapters in Meyer Bodansky’s 1927 Introduction to Physiology Chemistry:

• Three chapters described the chemistry of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins;

• Two chapters described digestion and absorption;

• Four described intermediary metabolism;

• One described animal calorimetry, and;

• One described animal nutrition.

That’s 11 out of 16 chapters that relate to nutrition. In fact, in 1934 Bodansky expanded the textbook by 200 pages, and expanded the nutrition section to include a discussion of protein requirements, the indispensability of fat, and the role of vitamins. Since his first edition, ascorbic acid (Vit. C) had been isolated and synthesized, linoleic acid was identified as an essential fatty acid, and other vitamins and trace minerals were shown to be essential to the diet, and an essential part of healthy eating.

Well, take a look at these facts:

• In a 1989 survey, Physicians scored 69% on nutrition test questions;

• In 1988 tests, medical school students rated as unsatisfactory in nutrition knowledge. Senior medical students scored an average of 69%;

• 1995, physicians correctly answered questions in drug-nutrient interaction 61% of the time.

Now, the problem here is that these are not your average people, these are highly intelligent, highly trained medical professionals, and they don’t know about the basis of life; eating healthy and nutrition.

Poor Nutrition is Deadly

According to scientific studies, five of the ten leading causes of death in the United States are directly related to lack of eating healthy and proper nutrition. Yet most physicians receive very little, if any, formal training in nutrition. During the 1970’s and early 1980’s, no medical schools in the U.S. required students to take a nutrition class. As of 1985, only two medical schools taught more than 25 hours of courses in nutrition. That's the equivalent to 3, 8 hour work days.

March 2007. It’s been almost a century since the science of nutrition was heavily taught in medical schools. So where do we stand?

• As a nation, we have never been sicker;

• There has been a major "de-emphasis" on eating healthy and good nutrition;

• One hundred and six thousand (106,000) people are dying in the U.S. each year, from properly prescribed drugs. that’s one every five minutes: twice as many deaths in a single year from properly prescribed drugs as the total number of U.S. deaths from the Vietnam war.

The sad thing is, the majority of these people were being treated for conditions that could have been prevented with proper nutrition, eating healthy and natural supplementation (vitamins).

Well, it depends on how serious you are about good health and being healthy as you are aging. There are a lot of books out on nutrition and health, anti aging diets; anti aging supplements and vitamins, etc., and it can seem like a daunting task to find the one that is right for you and actually shows you how to have a healthy diet.

Simply start slowly, don’t try to do it all at once. One step at a time. A really good book to start with that will open your eyes is called: The China Study. It has been called the most complete nutritional study ever undertaken, and is based on solid science. I will also be adding more information to this site as time moves along.

Stay with us on this site as it develops since I will be adding solid sources of good information, instead of some of the junk you see on other sites. My focus is solid science, quality, effectiveness and price.

The bottom line is, keep in mind as you are reading any book on nutrition or food, that we all have the same basic needs, and it begins with eating healthy, so that is your starting point. For more information, go to: (Healthy Foods: Foods That Heal) (Eating Healthy) and individual foods such as: Green Tea; (Aloe Vera) etc. Please remember that this site is under construction, so all of the links may not be active yet.:)

There is a lot of “uncomfortable” information about some of the modern ways of growing food, handling food, and Food Preparation. I will cover this in more detail in sections like harmful foods.

Keep in mind this sentence from the beginning of this page: “For the most part, the food in a typical supermarket has been fast-tracked for volume, maximum profit, visual appeal (packaging), but not nutrition.” The same holds true for how we prepare our food.

Always remember: nutrition is not an option, it is a necessity for good health now, and as we are aging. Your children depend on you to make the best decisions for them, it’s a huge responsibility not to be taken lightly. You are also responsible for your own health, good or bad.